Harmony Shards are an essential part of the leveling process in Lost Ark. You will need tens of thousands of Shards to get your gear to tier 2, let alone to the 600 iLevel threshold for Yorn and the continuation of the storyline.
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This is also where you'll face your first serious gate toward progression. Shards are not easy to get. There are various ways to acquire them, but you need to maximize all of them if you want to progress quickly. Here's a guide on where to get Harmony Shards and how you can farm them.
Here's a step-by-step checklist for you.
Island Quests are one of the easiest, most reliable ways to get a load of Harmony Shards. There is an ideal route for progression that we cover in our Tier 1 Endgame guide here. After a while, you will have completed all the Tier 1 islands and then move onto the Tier 2 crafting mats - Lifestones. Yes, you guessed it, these are hard to get as well. We will cover that separately, though.
Although Chaos Dungeons only give you the fat daily rewards twice a day, you can continue running Chaos Dungeons several more times to get Perception Shards and Disorder Crystals. Both of these can be used to exchange for useful items at the Chaos Dungeons Exchange NPC. Perception Shards can be exchanged for Harmony Shards on a weekly basis, and you can use Disorder Crystals to exchange for Legendary accessories if you've got a high enough gear score. This exchange is limited weekly.
This is why joining a guild is so important, and it's important that you'd donate 6,000 Silver daily as well. You should also complete weekly Guild tasks for extra Bloodstones. Bloodstones can be exchanged at the Bloodstone Exchange NPC in North Vern and other
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